Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 116
The little bed instantly rose up into the air and began to fly, and it flew and flew till it came to the Princess Labam's country, where it settled on the ground.
Who acts: little bed, bed · What happens: rise up, begin, fly, come, settle · To what, where: air, country
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little bed, bed), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bed | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bed | amod |
| 3 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 5 rose | advmod |
| 5 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 rose | compound:prt |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rose | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 fly | mark |
| 13 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 flew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 flew | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 flew | nsubj |
| 17 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rose | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 flew | cc |
| 19 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 flew | conj |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 came | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 flew | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 country | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Labam | det |
| 25 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Labam | compound |
| 26 | Labam | Labam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 country | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 Labam | case |
| 28 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 settled | punct |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 settled | advmod |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 settled | nsubj |
| 32 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 came | conj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 ground | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 ground | det |
| 35 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 settled | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | the little bed | the air | instantly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the little bed not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fly | to-infinitive | the little bed not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fly | past | bed | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fly | past | bed not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | come | past | bed | the Princess Labam's country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | settle | past | bed | on the ground | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on ground=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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